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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.600,942, dated March 22, 1898.

Appiaaimfned August 5, 1897.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAv BHR, a subject of the King of Saxony, and a resident of Plauen, near Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Empire-of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

The present invention consists of a table which may either be used in the ordinary Way or may be easily and conveniently adapted for card playing or other purposes; and in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of one form of and embodying the invention; Fig. 2, a sectional plan of Fig. l, showing the upper slabof the table cut away. Fig. 3 is asimilar section to that of Fig. Y1, but showing the under slab lowered in position for receiving the glasses of the persons playing. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 3 with the top slab removed; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the table; Fig. G, a detail sectional elevation of one corner of the table, and Fig. 7 a sectional plan of Fig. G.

Underneath the slab A of the table is mounted to slide vertically the lower shelf or slab G, said slab being properly guided in guides f f at the upper part of the legs of the table. To each corner of the slab at each table-leg is attached a cord or chain k, each cord or chain being guided over its respective roll T, revolubly mounted underneath the upper table-slab A. Mounted underneath the plate or slab A at a point approximate its center is a plate having revolubly mounted thereon rolls ac3 x4, over which the cords or chains 7a of the lower shelf G are guided, said cords being each attached to a collector-plate S, which is provided with a single cord or chain r, guided over a roll near the edge of the table and provided with suitable means of attachment, as shown at Fig. 4. The means of. attachment may consist of a plug r', attached to the end of the cord, and two sockets r2, iitted in the table a distance apart corresponding to the travel of the cord. When the flaps serial No. 647,209. (No model.)

are down, the plug Will be in the position shown at Fig. 4e, and when they are up in that shown at Fig. 2. Hinged to the upper surface of the shelf G are four diagonallyarranged partition-walls s, said walls being adapted to either lie hat on-the plate G or to stand up at right angles to the same. The upper edge of each partition is attache-d to the under surface of the tableslab A by means of a short cord, chain, or bar t, so that when the shelf G is lowered the partitionwalls s will be pulled upward into their vertical positions, Figs. 5 and 6, by means of t-he cords t.

The operation of the device is very simple. As may be seen from Fig. l, when the table is ordinarily used the shelf G is in theiraised position, and when it is required to use the same as a card-table or for other purposes where a clear table is required the cord or chain r is loosened and the shelf let down until it rests on stops at the bottom of the guideways f. Simultaneously the partitionwalls s will be turned into their vertical position by the cords or hinged bars t, and the said shelf may serve to receive the glasses of the persons playing or plates or any other articles. i

The number of partition-walls and shape of the table may be varied without departing from the nature of the invention.

I claim as my invention* l. A table having an upper fixed slab .and a lower movable slab, disposed underneath said upper slab, a series of partition-walls `hinged to said lower slab and means for simultaneously lowering said lower slab and raising the said partition-walls into their vertical position substantially as described.

2. The combination of a fixed upper slab and a movable lower slab, means for vertically guiding said movable slab underneath said upper slab, a series of flexible connections attached to the upper part of said under slab, a series of guide-rolls revolubly mounted underneath said upper fixed slab, means for combining said flexible connections to one line, means for attaching the end of said line, a series of vertical partitions hinged to the upper surface of said movable shelf, and means for connecting the upperedge of said IOO partition-Walls with the under surface of the upper table-slab in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

3. The combination of a fixed table-plate A, and a vertically-guided movable shelf G thereunder, guides f for said lower shelf arranged on the table-legs, a series of cords or chains 7c attached to said lower shelf, a series of guide-rolls rcvolubly attached to the under surface of the upper slab, guide-rolls 002 x3 @o4 attached underneath said upper slab approximate its center, a combining-plate S for and means for fixing the same, a series of partition-,walls s hinged to the upper surface I5 of the lower plate and connections t from the same to the under surface of the upper plate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of zo two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV BHR.

Witnesses WILHELM KAISER, HERMAN Wnrss. 

